Chapter 33 Forest kingdom and Meeting White in YoRHa Base
(General POV)
After a few moments of greeting kisses, Lucia starts to introduce her wives.
"Girls let me introduce. This is Esdeath, Saeko and Rika. There are still three more who haven't come here. "
"Nice to meet you all."
Saeko said followed by Rika and Esdeath.
"Greetings mothers!"
Then suddenly, A2 stood up straight and bowed a little and said which was followed by A4, 21S and G16.
"…"
"…"
They did that because they didn't know how to greet their creator's wives. They were only fighting for thousands of years after all. The only person they greet was only Commander White and they only salute her a greeting as well.
Of course, they knew how to greet their peers but doing like that would be rude to their creator's wives. That's why this was the best they could think of for now. Rose, Dahila, Anemone and Lily were looking at them awkwardly.
Saeko and Rika turn to look at Lucia who is face-palming after looking at the scene. They thought they were going to meet with their new sisters but they were being treated like a superior by their new sister! But Esdeath looks satisfied though. She is smiling and nodding like a sage as if she approved.
"Ahem…"
Rose makes a sound and everyone comes back to their senses again and looks at her.
"Nice to meet you, Saeko-sama, Esdeath-sama, and Rika-sama."
Rose extends her hand to make a handshake. Saeko accepted and greeted her back as Esdeath and Rika also did the same. They start to chat normally.
Rose starts to talk about how Lucia was mentioned about them and they are grateful that coming to this world as well. She also explains about their base, situations and many other things. The conversation went well.
As they talked like that she also tried to get A2 and her teammate into conversation. Like that A2 and her teammates started to chat comfortably.
Lucia smiled as she looked at the girls and opened her mission tab which she turned off the notification.
[Mission: Save YoRHa Soldiers from Red Girls' Control!]
3 level-up card, 100,000 Coins
[Mission (2): Destroy all machine life forms]
500,000 Coins
'There isn't much reward…'
[This is normal, you receive many missions and rewards from HOTD because that was the first world. Even though there were missions and rewards you can also choose not to do those as well.]
Lucia feels like this because she has too many coins now.
'Is that so? But I'm planning to do that anyway. By the way, can I sell those machine parts to the system?'
[Yes, you can. Unlike the last world you can sell many machine parts to the system.]
'This is good. I can farm more coins here.'
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Mt.Ka'ala was a very tall mountain and some clouds could be seen closely from the top. The clouds passed through just three meters above it and the cold winds blew faintly.
Lucia is sitting at the edge of the mountain and looking at the view under the mountain. Beside her were Saeko and Rika sitting Esdeath was behind her back hugging from behind and enjoying the warm body of Lucia. Lucia already told them what missions she got.
"It's beautiful isn't it?"
"Yea"
Under the blue sky, white clouds moved and on the ground was endless land filling to the horizon. They could see the blue color river path with sparkling lights reflecting on it. The big trees gather on the right side of the mountain and form an endless forest.
The green field once filled with freshness was filled with machine parts, random size pits, and many sword marks. Even though it was now a mess in the open field, the view at the top of the mountain which can see far places was still beautiful to look at.
"There is no human…" (Saeko)
"Yeah, it is great to live here for retired life." (Rika)
"What about killing?" (Saeko)
"Saeko… can't you think other than killing?" (Rika)
"Umm, Lucia?" (Saeko)
"…" (Rika)
"Are we going to make this whole world ours?" (Esdeath)
"I'm planning to do that." (Lucia)
"Just our big family in the whole world. I like it." (Esdeath)
A few more minutes later, A2 and Rose's groups were coming out from the elevator hall. They went in to check again a second time before they left.
"Done?"
"Yes, mother. So, where are going to?"
Lucia was about to talk but the ringtone from the communication tool which was stored inside the pocket of 21S started to ring. Everyone looked at 21S and she took out the phone shape high-tech communication tool. It was from HQ.
She looks at Lucia asking what to do with her eye. She doesn't want to talk with them because of the betrayal of the commander. A2 and her team wanted to cut the connection with HQ but because Lucia said not to do that they didn't do it. Lucia nodded and 21S accepted the call.
"This is from the command base, Captain A2, can you hear us?"
On the small screen of the phone, a little girl shows up. It was Futaba, an operator from the command base which was unknown where she disappeared when Nier: automata anime started. She had black hair and wore a white color military-style uniform with a skirt. A2 walked to 21S and took the phone as she answered.
"What do you want?"
"Congratulations on the successful mission."
Futaba said with an expressionless face.
"Tsk! Just that? If so, I will hang up."
Suddenly Commander White's face appeared on the screen and said,
"I know you would be angry. There are no teams near there to assist you and the enemy is too much of a number that you wouldn't be able to escape from there. That's why I decided to make that decision."
"… Even so, you--"
Before A2 could talk back, White cut in.
"You all will be able to come back as there were your saved data on our base. You shouldn't think too much. A soldier must obey the command of their superior after all."
A2 is standing and looking at the white from the screen. She knows what white means. They won't disappear just from dying. Their data were already saved in the YoRHa network server and can be revived again after they die. It's just they would disappear the memories she made during this mission.
However, she is still angry that White let them die just because there was no way to save them and send them there while not telling them the real enemy count. Unknown to her, White also didn't know that many machine life forms were coming there. Of course, it was the string control by the Red girls.
From the record they collected, A2 is good at combat more than other Type A units. That's why they wanted to know what kind of result they would get from thousands of enemies and her.
"Tsk, you--"
A2 was about to curse but Lucia walked behind A2 and held her shoulder. A2 turns back and looks at her 'mother' or creator and shuts her mouth. Lucia took the phone and said to white.
"So, you are the leader of the current army?"
White flinched and controlled her emotions. She answered back while she stood straight and saluted with her left hand moving above her left chest.
"Yes, mam. I'm currently acting as the commander of the YoRHa army. Code name white."
"At ease."
"Yes, mam."
She dropped her hand as moved behind her hips and waited for the order the creator would give to her.
"Commander White, I heard the last survivors successfully escape to the moon base. Is that true?"
White was silent for a few seconds biting the corner of her lip slightly and answered back.
"Yes! The last survivors were able to escape to the moon. Currently, they were hiding and waiting for the news of our victory."
Lucia looked at White, didn't say anything and just looked at her. If White were human, she would sweat a lot from the suspicious gaze of Lucia. She doesn't want to lie to the creator that created them but there is no other choice but to lie.
Many androids were listening to this conversation and she didn't want to tell the truth and drop the moral of androids.
'Well… she lies to me not to drop the moral and belief they did for thousands of years. I should stop here.' Lucia thought.
"I see… then it's great."
After Lucia said that White sighed in relief but not too visibly to others.
"Why are you contacting A2 now?"
"It was to communicate with you, our creator, Dr.Lucia."
As soon as she said that many androids in the command room started to be noisy.
"Human?!"
"Our creator?!"
"Did they not in the moon?"
"Are they come to look our battle?"
"Silent!" White shouted and the androids were stopped.
"I'm sorry for showing you an unpleasant thing."
"It's fine… they would want to know. Back to the topic, what do you want to talk to me?"
"This… can you come to the moon? I have something important to report."
"Hmm… Okay, I will come there but how do you plan to take me to outer space?"
"Yes, we have prepared a small bunker that can fly and we controlled it from the command room. We planned to guard with Flying Units as well. You can tell me when you want to come."
Lucia looks back at Saeko, Rika and Esdeath. She was thinking about when to go there and she also wants to travel in this world with her girls too.
"Go and solve some problems, we will travel with our new sisters."
"Yea, don't you want to finish the missions fast?"
"New sisters?" Lily asked because she doesn't know and the same goes for android girls.
"Okay, I will be going there for a while. I know you girls are strong but be careful, okay?"
Lucia said to her girls and they nodded.
"I will come there now. Also you don't need to worry about the bunker, just send one extra Flying Unit for me. I can deal with oxygen problem."
"Yes, mam."
After that Commander White personally goes and starts to prepare for their creator. Saeko, Rika and Esdeath peck her lip and start to climb down the mountain with the android girls. A2 and her team don't want her to go to the YoRHa base but they listen to Lucia and follow Saeko.
Saeko, Rika and Esdeath were excited to meet with various machine life forms. There were only limited scenes they saw in the anime after all. Also, they are going to make the whole world their territory. That's why they need to look for good places and clean the machines along the way.
Lucia stayed on the top of the mountain and waited for the escort team. She also wanted to look at the YoRHa flying unit a cool Mecha! While she wait she also went down and stored all machine parts into her inventory.
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Fresh winds pass and brush against leaves and trees, the green leaves which were flowing with the wind pass many places and reach the waterfall flowing from the upper hill.
In front of the waterfall was column building connected with two upper hills at each side as if it was a natural bridge for passing through.
A peaceful forest filled with beautiful scenery. There were also many old castle-like buildings which were built thousands of years ago. Even though those were broken and damaged in many places, they still exist and show how sturdy they were in the past.
In front of the damaged castle gate, a giant machine with big arms and red eyes was starting to flash into yellow color and return to red. After a few changes between red and yellow, it was stabilized in yellow color. Then many memories of ancient histories started to appear inside its memory storage.
It began to understand how the royalty would do and what was needed to create a kingdom. It started to walk toward the other machine life forms and stopped at the center of them.
There were also many small-type machine life forms. They have small two legs and hands with big bodies and heads.
(A/N: '<>' are the words machine life forms talk.)
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Small machine life forms started to ask and the big one who declared kingdom was answered.
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Many small machine life forms start to jump and shout.
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After the big machine life form said that the machine life forms suddenly gained some information about a kingdom and followed their king's order. The king starts to order them to rebuild the kingdom. Of course, this memory manipulation was caused by Red Girls.
They started to craft weapons, armor, helmets and put them on their body and acting like they were kingdom soldiers. Some don't wear armor and act like normal citizens in the country. Like that, they started to rebuild the castles and reinforce the defense of their kingdom.
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(Lucia POV)
After half an hour of waiting the sound of an aircraft passing was heard. I look up to the sky from my throne which was summoned from the Gate of Babylon.
Of course I wasn't just sitting, I was chatting with Yuriko and Shizuka with telepathy. They said Saya is creating some interesting golem in the abyss realm. I feel like Saya becoming more and more interested in creating golems.
Yuriko is redesigning the Babylon with Shizuka as well. I was happy that they found their hobbies to pass the time while I was not with them. I'm planning to go honeymoon in Nier world after I solve the machine life form problem.
"The ride has come. Later my loves."
"Okay, my love."
After I closed the telepathy with my lovers the white color Flying Units of YoRHa landed in front of me. Middle of the landed White color Flying Units or Mecha, there is one medium size high-tech aircraft.
After they landed, YoRHa soldiers started to get down from the Mecha and salute.
"YoRHa Soldier, Type G, No.23. Greet our creator!"
"YoRHa Soldier, Type A, No.1. Greet our creator!"
"YoRHa Soldier, Type A, No.11. Greet our creator!"
"YoRHa Soldier, Type G, No.20. Greet our creator!"
"YoRHa Soldier, Type G, No.2. Greet our creator!"
Like that 10 girls were saluting me.
'I guess most of the fighting units are female frames because of some incident happened when they used male frames in the past. I don't remember much but they were always destroyed in missions from what I know.' I thought to myself.
"At ease. You all don't need to do formal. Just speak with me normally."
"This…"
They still hesitate to talk normally. But suddenly,
"Then can I call you, mother?"
My right eyebrow twitch slightly.
'They really have a tendency of calling me 'mother'.' I thought.
"Yes, you can my girl." The android who said earlier was beaming with a smile. She is A20 as usual they are all beautiful. The rest of the androids started to call me comfortably as well and chat for a few sec.
"Mother here is the Flying Unit for you to use!"
After she said that, the under part of the aircraft was slowly opened and the Flying Unit in black slowly appear.
It is similar to the one which 9S used in anime but all the Flying Units were the same anyway. The only colors were different and there is only 2 color as well.
The Flying Unit has two legs and four hands. First, two hands were connected beside the body part while the other two hands were connected slightly behind the first two. Backhands are mainly used for producing fire to fly and there are also two fire-producing parts behind the back of the Mecha.
The aircraft wings were on the shoulder of it and there was also one long box at each that stored missiles. The pilot place controls it by staying stand-up position inside the body part of the Mecha and the front is covered with two shield-like metals and the aircraft head is hovering over the head of the pilot. It can also change into aircraft as well.
(A/N: Picture at comment)
'Amazing! Finally, I can use Mecha now!'
I walked toward it and tried touching it. I was satisfied with the Mecha and entered into it. But I don't know how to use it though. Why would I bother learning it while I have a system? I bought the 'Expert Rider' skill and much information started to enter into my mind. After that, I forced on the Mecha and suddenly understood how to use it.
I made it fly and it started to move according to my control. No.20 was about to give me a guide to use it but I controlled it easily and they were surprised.
'Sasuga Lucia-sama!' is what they thought.
(A/N: It means 'As expected of Lucia-sama'. I just want to use this sentence. LOL)
I tried to make many poses in midair and I feel like I can display some sword skills as well! Normally, Androids used just basic close combat and range attacks with the Flying Unit but because of my 'Expert Rider' skill, I could use it more effectively.
"Let's go"
I said and the girls nodded and started to get into their Flying Units as well and started to fly. The aircraft also started to fly as well. Like that, we head to the space in which YoRHa Command Base.
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In space not far away from the Earth, there is a super large satellite bunker, orbiting around the world. Many small dots were starting to surface from the earth's atmosphere and approaching the large satellite bunker. They are Lucia and YoRHa Soldiers.
After quite some time of flying, they reached the space bunker and headed to the Hanger section. When they reach Hanger, they start to dock their Mecha there and start to get down from the Mecha.
There is 16D who is the leader of the Hanger Section's defense force. 16D is a beautiful short black hair android. There were also some members of her team as well but this time there were a lot of YoRHa Soldiers. The reason is they were waiting for the human who visited them as well as their creator. Of course, there is also Commander White as well.
After Lucia got down from the Mecha, She looked at the androids who were standing and waiting for her. There seem to be some Operators too.
'Is it okay Operator Unit to leave the command room? It seems they want to meet me in person.' Lucia thought and smiled warily.
Commander White stepped forward and saluted her as she placed her left hand in front of her big breasts. 16D and all the androids also did the same. Their sudden and the same time actions were amazing to look at.
"Greetings to our Creator! Glory to Mankind!"
""Greeting to our Creator! Glory to Mankind!""
Everyone shouted at the same time after White said first.
"At ease, everyone."
Lucia was awkward after they shouted like that but still she managed to talk normally outside.
"Yes, Mam!"
Lucia walked to them and soon she reached White.
"Let's go, show me what you all been doing all these years."
"Understood"
White nodded and started to lead Lucia to the command room. Everyone wants to talk with Lucia but they also need to head back to their position as well.
"Go back to your positions, I will talk with you all later. Okay?"
"Yes, Mam!"
Lucia talks to all the androids and they start to move to their positions in high spirits. Of course, there were also Male Frame Androids but it seems to be too much fewer than from anime.
"There seems to be too little male frame."
"Ah, we decided to use a more female frame since 'Mother' was female as well."
'Huh?' Lucia looks at White in shock. She said 'Mother' to her as well and it was as if natural to call her like that. Lucia saw White' little smile as well.
'Why are all androids so much eager to call me mother?' Lucia thought while she followed White to their Command room. Of course, the reason for using a female frame was suggested by Red Girls. But calling mother was the wish of all androids. After all these years of endless fighting, they have finally found the pillar to lean on.
The door opened, and Lucia and White entered into the command room. Operator androids were also entered in the room from the ground floor and moved to their positions. Lucia also saw two little operators in there.
Yes, they are Futaba and Yotsuba. Cute little girls who work as operators. They were unknown to what happened in the Nier series. Lucia decided to fasten her mission here. She doesn't want the girls to be destroyed by the Red Girls.
"We can talk later, do your work first White."
"Yes Mother"
Lucia said standing at the circular area beside White and looking at the amazing command room. It's really different from watching anime. White starts to connect to all androids on Earth and the communication tools start to ring.
In the desert sands cover the ruined buildings which were once big cities of humans. Inside the destroyed building, a long black-haired girl who wore a black dress uniform with a black color blindfold took out her communication tool. Beside her were two more beautiful girls in white color with the same clothes as her with a blindfold as well.
"Hmm? It's from Command Base."
"What? Aren't we just finished the mission now? Shouldn't we rest for a while?"
The girl said to another beauty beside her who was reading the book with a blindfold.
"Mmm…" The one who reading the book said while still reading the book.
"Quite, I will connect now."
As soon as she opened the high-tech phone, they saw a Beautiful white-haired girl with red eyes while the other side was covered with a hair bang beside Commander White. She wore the stylish unknown uniform of white and grey color.
"Infected?!"
Of course, for those who don't know what Lucia looks like they would mistake her with the infected. Command Base's androids didn't show that expression because they were already informed by White and had already shown Lucia's information about being their creator. The three android girls shocked but the girl from the screen, Lucia was started to talk.
"To all android, I announce that our creator has standing with us here!"
She starts to explain about Lucia and shows Lucia's information from the screen. She talked about how Lucia was somehow time-traveled and noticed that the war with Aliens had not finished for a long time. She explains how Lucia was proud and grateful for what the androids did for their sake. And now she had come here by fate she was going to end the endless war with machines.
While she was talking there were information shown beside her screen that she was one of the creator of military android by operator units. After she says everything, White tells all the androids to stand by and stop the activities for a while.
Being Lucia was staying in their base, the androids became high spirits. After a few more minutes, White gives her command to Androids and turns to look at Lucia who is thinking how to finish the mission quickly.
"Mother, I have important things to discuss with you."
"Hmm? Okay."
"Let's go to my room."
Lucia nodded and followed her as they headed to White's bedroom.
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